 | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Scientists - 1895 - 472 pages
...opening up to the eastern coast of Mexico and the States bordering on the Gulf and to the great valley of the Mississippi the rich markets of the Pacific,...impracticable at Tehuantepec he proposed to build a ship railway for the transportation of ocean vessels over the 140 miles of land that separate the Gulf... | |
 | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Scientists - 1895 - 466 pages
...opening up to the eastern coast of Mexico and the States bordering on the Gulf and to the great valley of the Mississippi the rich markets of the Pacific,...saving of 2,000 miles over the Panama route and 1,500 miles'over the Nicaragua route. As a canal was impracticable at Tehuantepec he proposed to build a... | |
 | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Scientists - 1895 - 712 pages
...opening up to the eastern coast of Mexico and the States bordering on the Gulf and to the great valley of the Mississippi the rich markets of the Pacific,...a saving of 2,000 miles over the Panama route and l,oOO miles over the Nicaragua route. As a canal was impracticable at Tehuautepec he proposed to build... | |
 | American Society of Civil Engineers - Civil engineering - 1886 - 316 pages
...opening up to the eastern coast of Mexico and the States bordering the Gulf and to the great valley of the Mississippi, the rich markets of the Pacific,...States by the shortest possible route by way of the Termantepec Isthmus, where a crossing for ships would effect a saving of 2 000 miles over the Panama... | |
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IGads cenceived the idea of extending the Mississippi river, commercially speaking, into the Pacific Ocean, and of opening up to the eastern coast of Mexico and the States bordering on the Gulf and to the great valley of the Mississippi the rich markets... 